Guild Wars 2

Gizmo.9178:

Maybe I missed something but blocking someone puts you as invisible to them. How can they still find you?

Yes you are missing something. Currently even if you block person he will still be able to see you online unless you go Invisible. And even after that he will still be able to stalk you through guild list (it will show location even thou your name will be greyed out).

The only thing that block currently does – prevents person from sending you in-game whispers. He still can harass you in say/map chat assuming stalker can get into the same map. He still can join your group from LFG etc etc. This is a very serious design flaw imo

1. Blocked accounts must not be able to see you online and your location/AP etc.
2. Blocked accounts must not be able to join your group from LFG.

So as of yesterday you cannot pop a commander tag and have an active LFG listing. Meaning that you cannot taxi anyone onto your map.

This sucks so bad for open world events – I don’t even know. Was that intended or we are supposed to use ghetto mentor tags now?

Same here. Constant crashes, had to set UI settings to best performance to avoid this kitten (using 64 bit client)

Im getting 15-20 ore per run (opening 30+ chests). Not sure what’s wrong with OP, maybe just a bad luck. From my experience ore drop rate is around 50%

Gerent itself is fine.

Things that are not fine:
1. Scaling on Nuhoch lane defense event (impossible to complete with 35+ people)
2. Pre-event bonuses do not work so we basically fight handicapped.

If Anet fixed these issues fight will be more manageable and even possible on more or less random pug maps.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Skady.5916:

Are there any plans to change FRACTAL DAILIES?

FYI currently people only run swamps and molten duos to get their dailies done (56-67-77 or something like that) and there is absolutely no incentive to run anything else. I have only done lvl 100 Mai Trin once – and there is absolutely no point to run it again.

If those changes go through and the rewards are appropriate, this issue should fix itself as other scales will be more fun to play and are going to give more rewards than the 56-60-67 dailies we’re doing currently. If people just want their daily rewards, they’re still going to do those of course, but people will continue to run the easiest scales until you lock them into certain ones.

I don’t see how changes listed by Gaile gonna promote playerbase to run anything but swamp/duo/maw. Even if you add 75-100 daily, people will run 77-80-90 and will be done with it. We need a daily “Do lvl 94 fractal” to get it to work.

Are there any plans to change FRACTAL DAILIES?

FYI currently people only run swamps and molten duos to get their dailies done (56-67-77 or something like that) and there is absolutely no incentive to run anything else. I have only done lvl 100 Mai Trin once – and there is absolutely no point to run it again.

32 hours non stop map completion without bio-breaks? CoF is still 2x-3x as fast with all boosters and you can pretty much AFK through it on a staff guardian.

TheLastNobody.8319:

Ehhh to be fair we shouldn’t have to lean so heavily on the LFG to find maps as we do now in HoT. No I’m not saying nerf the events, just something should be done so people aren’t being thrown into maps that don’t have quite the numbers it needs to complete it.

Why not?
What if I want to find an empty map for RP purposes?
What if I dont want to complete meta event but want to farm escort or whatnot?
What if I dont even know what else I might wanna do on the map.

If you want to complete meta event – find like-minded people. This is exactly the purpose of LFG tool. You forgetting that people may have difference purposes of utilizing the same map and assuming that everyone wants to complete the meta.

Kanto.1659:

I have yet to even see DS’ meta. For a game that boasts of a megaserver I go there, stand around for a while, see one or two persons in one camp.

Kanto, ths is LFG
LFG, this is Kanto

You guys gonna be good friends. You can thank me later

This will destroy the purpose of vistas and jumping puzzles

We were unable to get achievement credit for defending lanes (Nuhoch, Ogre etc) after successful Chak Gerent kill

Looks like all 4 lane achievements are bugged

Just did DS event on highest settings (used to crash every 5 min) – the game is beautiful again!!

Thank you!

My client crashes approximately every 10-15min. I’ve sent countless reports and still experience the same issue.

Event chains are unplayable since I cannot get back to the map.

I also like how they made fights longer – this was a good change, they also should make bosses more dangerous imo. For example the last fractal lvl 100 Mai Trin was just boring due to her not doing any damage whatsoever and not being dangerous at all. We literally had no chance to wipe.

Rewards:

As stated before, liquid rewards are bad, but this is not even the worst part about fractal rewards. The fact is

GOLD FRACTAL WEAPONS ARE NOT EXCLUSIVE TO FRACTALS.

- you can buy encryptions of TP
- you can buy stabilizing matrices off TP (1 matrix = 2 keys)

It means that you do not need to run fractals to get fractal weapons. Anyone who has enough gold to gamble can get them faster than any fractal runner.

konnsky.6540:

_Captain Mai Trin Boss:

Fixed some bugs that allowed players to rejoin the fight against Mai Trin after logging out.
Fixed a bug that would allow Kiel to resurrect downed players outside of Mai Trin’s room._

(From HoT patch notes)

She actually still does resurrect players, you just cannot rejoin the fight anymore

Are you planning to turn it on again tonight or we can just relax and sit back for now?

Trevor Bennett.3691:

/cheer
/wave
/sleep

not so hasty, Trevor… not so hasty

It’s not working yet!!!

Barsity,
you really should go try other games if 1-2 hours of downtime once in a blue moon is such a big deal for you. For instance, SWTOR used to bring all the servers down for 2-4 hours every 2-4 weeks just to roll the new build over not mentioning hot-fixes etc.

This is literally first long downtime in 3 years and it does not even affect all players. Just sit back and relax a bit while they are working on it, they brought people back to the office on Friday midnight and you still kittening about it is just ridiculous.

What about Keeper armor? Same reason why it was not included or you not planning to support this stat combo in the future?

This is very sad to see that Arenanet continues to promote tag’n’run mentality.

Please don’t make this bullkitten mandatory in HoT.

@OP
I have seen this a lot – people join your group while you selling an instance just to talk mad kitten on you. Best thing you can do – just ignore them

By talking to him you are just provoking him to further actions (trolling, griefing, instance hijacking etc.)

According to current policy, as you have already mentioned, instance selling is OK and you can use LFG tool to do so.

Thaddeus.4891:

And then what do you do with the gold on your free accounts? You can’t transfer gold or stuff to your main.

Post piece of trash for 1000g on trading post and buy it with your free alt account. You only lose 15%

upd. nevermind its not possible but WvW siege is a good idea – that will work

Are we gonna get a raid/party leader option to support future raids?

Current vote-kick system will be a disaster for 10man raids.
Imagine 10man raid with 6 people vote-kick… Everyone kicked everyone out.

For the love of god please tell me this is not gonna happen

All lvl80 content was already nerfed with June 23 patch. I am not sure what ANet was thinking but they DOUBLED damage output in lvl 80 PvE encounters. Which means that everything is TWICE easier now. If bosses used to die in 20+ sec after executing at least one attack that you had to dodge – now they are literally dying before you manage to engage them in combat.

“Challenging group content” promises look really good on paper but so far they only nerfed and dumbed down existing encounters. Which makes us wonder – how challenging that content is gonna be?

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

What do you think?

You’ll be level 50 and you’ll not know how to play. People like this who but these high levels only pollute the pool of players who really worked for their level 50. People, who actually made it to 50 on their own, will notice later on when they want to make a party the people no longer know what to do, where to stack, or to range or other things…

Trust me you are unlikely to meet people who buy fractals in…. fractals. They mostly buy it for convenience.

Also leveling in FOTM is painful

Also you are about a year late to the party

Also hit me up in game if you wanna buy runs

Miss Lana Too.5794:

Yeah that’s exactly why I’ve been wanting privacy features implemented. The system as it is now is not ideal for those of us who don’t want to be harassed. I’m honestly really surprised that this hasn’t been addressed/looked into/inquired about by devs before the 3 year mark. I made this suggestion shortly after release (and a few times since then), but it seems to have been completely swept under the carpet – multiple times. You can bet I’ll be fighting to keep this thread alive til something is finally done about it.

Yeah I feel you – getting tons of whispers is annoying, and broken Block feature when blocked person can actually see you online is annoying too. But they cannot just block everyone from whispering to you. What if some new player wants some help and cannot whisper you? Or maybe your friend that you did not add to your friend list yet? Or maybe you forgot to set your privacy setting back to ‘normal’ and all of a sudden all people have issues whispering to you. They probably gonna think that you are rude or something…

The goldseller issue can be dealt with on a different level without limiting everyone else.

Well of course ANet should be smart about this feature.

You cannot just block all whispers for new accounts – this will prevent legitimate players from getting help and finding friends.

In your original post you got about 10 whispers from the same gold selling account. That means he probably sent hundreds of messages to other players – and this is something to look into.

I’ve read the replies and the way I see this there is two problems

1. “Block” feature is not working as intended (blocked person still can see you online and “stalk” you). This needs to be fixed IMO.

2. Gold sellers spam from new accounts (presumably). At least every time they spam me they use Djhgjh character names and Hjhfgjhf.XXXX account names which makes me think that they are not stolen accounts, they are just new accounts used for mass-whispering. Maybe there is some way of limiting mass-whispering for newly-created accounts?

Zaklex.6308:

Well, it would be nice to have Privacy settings, but keep in mind that those same Privacy settings could be a detriment to the game by keeping players from helping other players…just a thought to keep in mind when suggesting something like this.

You bringing a valid point and I think this is one of the reasons why nothing like this is implemented in the game.

How many players out there want to play with “no one can whisper me but I don’t want to miss out on guild chat” mode on? And maybe it is better for Anet to focus on goldseller bans instead of adding questionable functionality to the game?

Thanks for vids really nice!
And special thanks for acknowledging that your times are comparable to our times and there is no 15-20min gap like someone stated above. I am pretty sure it is possible to do better just as you said.

P.S. Just as you I have no idea how you went all the way to double-downed on Frizz but ironically healing guardian would have saved the day for you in that case If you don’t mind taking suggestion from a clerics casual – you can try dropping WoR for HtL and Shelter for RtL. You can block projectiles with mace3 instead and HtL will give you sustain that needed for that encounter (if you do corner stack).

bladex.9502:

Where exactly did you see me write “you are noob”?
You fail to understand that people are just giving their opinion.
Last time I checked, we are free to give our opinion on a thread that is openly available to everyone visiting this forum.
Also last time I checked, this isn’t the place to post builds, there’s a guardian subforum for that, as well as a community creations subforum.
Even if your runs were godtier, there would be no reason to post this.

You don’t see people posting “berserker elementalist Q&A” so why would using clerics gear make you so interesting that you have to host a “Q&A” about it?

You’re just desperately craving for attention, and kitten me for giving it to you…

OK,
I am glad you completely ignored other part of my post comparing healing guardian trio times vs. full-zerk trio times. At least I tried to have a constructive discussion with you

Hey bladex, I appreciate you feedback but please stop trying to insult me with all of this “you just seeking attention” and “you are noob” comments – it’s just unprofessional and nonconstructive. Last time I checked this was dungeon/fotm forum and not “zerk only no clerics” forum so I have exactly the same right to post here as everyone else.

If person posting on forums that does not necessarily mean that he is looking for attention or has any malicious intent. I get quite a bit of positive feedback but mostly in whispers and PMs. People are afraid of leaving any positive feedback openly because they are scared to be bullied by someone like you. I am not afraid of you and I am not afraid to say that you just being rude and nonconstructive. You still have a chance to change your attitude thou and maybe some day experience some runs with me or another cleric guardians (I know at least one who plays on EU).

Now to the video you linked.
Its a really nice run I really enjoyed snowblind fractal – props to the guys. 22-25 min is normal when you get these rolls.
As a counter examples I can link you my runs with the same fractal rolls:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYiE3qHZQg&list=PLCxfgAjHhmmwpAM9N2AgBQODeGx33wRih&index=9 Snowblind trio with Healing guardian took 10min vs 9min full zerk. But I would like to note that SC team used risky spawnrush strategy and if they did not get lucky enough that could have extended run for another min.
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-OJyULLbmU&list=PLCxfgAjHhmmwpAM9N2AgBQODeGx33wRih&index=16 Aetherblade trio with healing guardian took 7:40 which is exactly the same time as full zerk team. With healing guardian you can just stack in the corner and heal up through which full zerk team cannot pull off and they have to kite instead.

As you can see 2 fractals (Snowblind and Aetherblade) take nearly the same time with full zerk or healer+zerk combo. 15-20 min difference is just a lie or misinformation

Have a nice day and I would like to see more trio videos if you have any!

Purple Miku.7032:

As long as you don’t claim it as a general statement for it to be better or to use a healing guard + 2 DPS players over 3 people using DPS builds, then it’s fine. The distinction between declaring it as a general statement and claiming it’s something that works best for you and your friends in particular is kind of important if you want to make sure that you aren’t interpreted incorrectly.

I never claimed that healing guard + DPS is faster. I have absolutely no doubts that there are people out there who are really good at this game and play with other really good players for 5 years together and they can do fractal trios faster and maybe even post a video of it some day.

The thing is that I play with different players every day and they all have very different skill level. And I never rely on some specific person or specific profession to be online and available – and we complete 8 fractal runs under 5-6 hours daily (i.e. everyday without failure).

People do not understand that there is a big difference between “record” runs and strategies and “farm” runs and strategies. For some reason these two entities are completely mixed up in people’s minds and they think that it is the same thing. Maybe that’s because general crowd does not understand how many wipes and failed attempts stand behind record runs – teams can wipe for hours just to get that perfect time. Or maybe that’s because original dungeons introduced at head-start were too linear and easy so that record strategies happened to become farm strategies. Anyways for high-level fractals IMO it is not the same thing.

I was always curious as to how full-zerk trio runs go. I always wanted to compare but I could not find any other trio team that could do at least 10 runs and compare times. Maybe you can help me with that and we do it for science?

bladex.9502:

Also, you’re talking about “best option DPS wise” while running healer guard? If there was anything that would be the best option DPS wise, it would be you getting rid of your clerics gear

I was talking about the best DPS option for Ele/X combo, we still optimize other 2 slots DPS-wise. The fact that we go with cleric does not mean that we do something slow or do not try to optimize runs.

Healing guardian is there to
1. increase DPS uptime for others
2. minimize wipes due to human factor errors and bad RNG. Example: Imbued shaman goes shield phase and puts lava pit right on top. With full zerk it can mean inevitable wipe, with healing guard you just pop some cooldowns and laugh it off.

People already posted feedback from running with us – 3 fotm 50s in under 2 hours. This is no joke and it can be done on a daily basis and you don’t need Sesshi-level players to pull it off, you shall not care if you get Mossman/Colossus/Dredge/Mai all in one fractal. I can even pull it off with you as long as you can play DPS classes on a decent level (im not trying to offend you here I just really never played with you).

Hello again community!

Forums moderators please read this: this is NOT an LFG thread

I came back to you to answer some questions since my original thread was moved to LFG forum (i guess moderators just saw the key word and moved it my mistake – no biggie)

The questions I receive mostly related to stat combo I use and why I use it.

NikeEU.7690:

Why Clerics instead of Celestial, which is better for the job in every respect?

1) i will make myself a cleric set (ascended) but i dont plan to make a keeper set (too expensive). Do you think without keeper i will be ok for trash mobs? in a general way, how do you handle trash mobs with a cleric guard?

For starters: I tried celestial way back before June-23 patch when fractal trio was approx 2x harder and all I can say is NO. While it seems like this set will do “better job in every respect” in fact it does not. First of all it’s lacking power and DPS will be still bad, second of all your healing and tanking abilities will be kitten too and in fact you will not be able to act as a tank and a healer and you will be just acting as a bad DPS

I run 3 sets of armor and 2 sets of trinkets and I usually switch gear based on fractal:
1. Cleric Armor+Cleric Trinkets for Mossman/Archdiviner/Ettin/Dredge cage since my goal is to prove a tank and I don’t want to kite and move boss at all. I go full defensive just to let my team go full offensive and dont worry about boss moving. In dredge cage you don’t need to kill anything at all so your DPS does not matter and it really helps to have a tank who just runs in first and takes care of all aggro.
2. Keeper Armor+Zerk Trinkets for pretty much any other fractal and trash pulls/easy bosses (Uncategorized 2nd part, Urban, Dredge 2nd part, Showblind, Volcanic, Thaumanova, Molten Duo etc). It is quite possible to play entire fractal set with Keeper+Zerk if we get “easy rolls”. On a side note, if we do duo I still prefer cleric trinkets on Svanir Shaman cause that guy hurts a lot and you will run out of blocks eventually and I just prefer to let my ele go full dps instead of kiting.
3. Keeper Armor+Cleric trinkets when you need extensive healing (Frizz stacking spot, Heat room, Mai Trin)

So basically if you are cheap and wanna adopt our strategy – you can start with full clerics and do any encounter just fine and fast enough. You will still get about 30min trio result since your staff ele will dish out way more dps if you let him free cast (entire point of having healing guard in the party).

2) my guild doesn’t have a sinister / zerk engi for high level fractal. What is the 2nd best comp for fractal without an engi? 2 ele? 1war / 1 ele? or 1thief / 1 ele ?

You can go with any of these. Warrior is the best option DPS wise – banners will buff your ele to godly state. However warriors have no blinds and no stealth. Second ele will be almost just as fast as a warrior. Thief is the most “safe” alternative for an engie since he can stealth you in Dredge/Uncategorized/Mai/Urban and can provide perma blinds for just pretty much everything.

If you have a player who can roll both warrior and thief that would be actually perfect. He can start swamp as a warrior and then swap to thief if you roll a fractal that requires stealth.

Good luck!

Good day everyone!

Couldn’t find my thread cause it was removed to LFG section by some kind moderator. Can we get it back to dungeon forums?

I will add everyone in game who expressed interest in trios and I guess I will have to create a new thread in dungeon section to answer some questions unrelated to LFG-part of the thread

Again, if anyone can help me to get thread back to dungeon forums that would be nice

I just discussed this issue with Brown and I am fairly certain it is somehow related to your ping. He has a decent rig but really kittenty ping (200+ms, SEA) and he always suffers from delayed circles and invisible circles.

deSade.9437:

Well of course, it never happens to you so it never happens.

I didn’t claim it never happens – please re-read my post.

In case if you have further questions I can clarify it again for you – most likely issues described above related to rendering, also they sound similar to “invisible barrage” on Lupi or invisible barrage on Molten Firestorm. For example I’ve never experienced Lupi barrage bug after i updated GPU. I am not saying everyone should go get high-end GPU but it might solve the problem for someone.

Have a nice day please don’t be upset!

I am fairly certain non-accrurate circles is some rendering issue and can be related to your GPU and/or drivers. The thing is that i kited those circle hundreds of times by now and they were always pretty accurate for me, but I always do it solo (while team is stealthed in the corner). Maybe more people running around cause the lag?

kokiman.2364:

I think Mai Trin is the best example of A.Net’s boring boss mechanics. You have 4 phases and nothing changes it’s literally going back and forth between phase 1 and 2, no increased difficulty, no added mechanics just doing the same crap 4 times.

Actually longer barrage phase can be considered “increased difficulty”

I see a lot of people complaining about bugged barrage. Can anyone elaborate what you guys mean?

IrisTheCasual.3742:

Hey,

Where do I sign up?

Consider it done!
I will hit you up in game

RSLongK.8961:

Do you guyz play around 1~2h after reset? if so i will be glad to join with ele (engie gearing ongoing)

We start 30min before reset

1.TL:DR
2. Answer to your question is “Yes”

Hello again community!

This is an LFG post

I am a healing guardian specializing in FOTM trio runs and I am looking for players who like fractals and would be interested in doing some trios.

Some facts about us:
- we usually play daily except some weekends
- we doing 8 high-level FOTM runs (40s + 50s) between 4:30 and 10 PM PST
- we looking for ELE, ENGI (both sini and zerk would work)
- we running under [GOOD] tag on lfg (not an actual guild, more like a personal bank, you don’t have to join it)
- we use teamspeak (you don’t have to talk obviously)
- we play on NA servers

Feel free to hit me up in game if:
- you feel like you are proficient with your class (we can teach you specific tricks and strats, no worries about that) and know how to use your dodge button
- you playing in the same timezone
- also if you would like to buy some runs from us (but that’s another story)

Some examples of what we doing:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCxfgAjHhmmwpAM9N2AgBQODeGx33wRih

Have a nice day and hopefully I can do some runs together with some of you guys!

Cheers!

IrisTheCasual.3742:

Fight your teammates. Make sure every hits of cannon counts toward the decimation of their bodies, from fully down to death. Then you can have the entire fight with Mai Trin on your own. Less kiting time, more slashing action.

#Imnotjokingatall

Yes unfortunately its true

I always ask my buyers to jump off the cliff and let us kill her in peace quickly for the same reason

Rising Dusk.2408:

Skady.5916:

My point was that GWAMM just takes certain amount of time invested. Fractal weapon collection on the other is elusive and can take you any time between 10 hr and infinity.

All things just take time investment. Even the hardest raids from the hardest games you can possibly think of just take time to learn and master and beat.

I totally agree with your statement but please read what I said above – it has nothing to do with what you are talking about.

I am talking about the fact that currently fractal weapon collection is a pure RNG and has no “time invested” requirement whatsoever. One individual can get lucky and obtain that collection in 19 runs (lets call it 10hr if he bought those runs) while another individual might never get it even thou he did thousands or even millions of runs.

Kordash.2197:

Element Two.7316:

Skady.5916:

Oh pls. I started working on GWAMM after they broke HOM and finished before they fixed it. Took about 400-500 hr

Yea, and what in GW2 takes anywhere close to that time?

More over, it’s 400-500h when you know the game perfectly well and focus only on it, and with discordway and/or sabway. Average time to get it is nowhere close to this.

I knew nothing about the game but I did have a friend who helped me to get through tough places like DoA etc. GW has very detailed wiki – that’s enough to learn about the game

My point was that GWAMM just takes certain amount of time invested. Fractal weapon collection on the other is elusive and can take you any time between 10 hr and infinity.

Rising Dusk.2408:

And you’re absolutely right. Nothing in GW2 has thus far felt more prestigious to me than my GWAMM title and 50/50 in the HoM.

Oh pls. I started working on GWAMM after they broke HOM and finished before they fixed it. Took about 400-500 hr

From what I’ve noticed:
- Mai Trin aggroes on toughness (armor)
- Horrik aggroes on channeling skills (meteor shower, empower etc.). Probably that also has something to do with standing still, because whenever my DPS team loses stealth for a split second – Horrik is all over them with his cannon.

People will always need a way to judge each other potential performance in a group content, especially in a “challenging group content” that was promised.

If anything, they should give us more options to validate each other performance not less – they should open up our build setup for inspecting (you should also be able to hide it if you feel like it).

If they hide your AP – next thing is gonna be your class, armor/weapon skin or anything really.

AP requirements are stupid as they are but people who complain about it should realize that this is the only way that pugs can currently judge each other.